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Senate moves toward confirming Trump EPA air nominee

The Senate on Wednesday advanced President Trump’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Air and Radiation, setting up a final vote later in the week.

The Senate voted 49-46 to end debate on William Wehrum’s nomination to be assistant administrator of the agency. If confirmed this week he will be only the second of Trump’s EPA nominees installed at the agency.

"This is an office in desperate need of new leadership from an individual who understands how to implement policies in a balanced way, rather than with extreme regulatory overreach,” he said during debate on Wednesday.

Democrats have blasted Wehrum’s nomination, noting his legal work on behalf of fossil fuel industries he would soon be regulating.